The Hatching of Hettie Hen…

Hettie Hen was hatched in 2018 by Mike and Lizzie Moran — along with their five girls, Bea, Hanna, Esme, Niamh, and Rosie — on Lizzie’s parents’ farm in Somerset, where farming roots stretch back two, if not three, generations. Chickens roamed freely around the yard, pecking at grubs and occasionally causing havoc in the flower beds. But it was from this rustic family chaos — and a shared family passion for knowing exactly where your food comes from — that Hettie Hen was born.

In those early days, we used our own eggs and pork from Caroline Wheatley-Hubbard’s Berkswell herd of Tamworths at Boyton Farm in Wiltshire. Today, our pork comes from R Owton Hampshire (https://www.owtons.com) ensure our Pork is perfect for our eggs.

At the heart of our products are our eggs, our hens eggs sourced from Southview Farm (https://southviewenterprise.com/) only 20 minutes away from us in Warminster, just outside Bath. Where they have a flock of over 6000 hens which are all free range and roam outside to their heart’s content. They enjoy foraging in the fresh air amongst our young willow trees. The combination of feeding a responsibly sourced, high-quality, sustainable diet along with providing fresh pasture and a natural habitat means our customers keep coming back and we enjoy hearing how great our eggs taste!

And then we have our Quails Eggs, from Cackleberry Farm (https://www.cacklebean.com/) where the quails are allowed to fly free, live a very happy life and forage in the old barn expressing such big personalities for such little birds. These gorgeous little quails lay beautiful tiny speckled eggs with golden yolks, which are sold in boxes of 5 eggs with our signature yolk and pork sausage meat found in our hens eggs. They are perfect for entertaining and as an addition to any sharing platter.

It all began one day when we returned home from Bath Farmers’ Market with more sausages than sausage sales and wondered, “Could we make a few Scotch eggs?” Before we knew it, we were selling far more Scotch eggs than sausages — and so, in 2018, Hettie Hen was truly hatched.